Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:54:09 +0000 From: bsd@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Khelbin Sunvold <khelbin@ntplx.net> Subject: Re: BSD newbie installer...almost ready Message-ID: <199709100224.MAA01108@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au>
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Thanks for the Khelbin, It is useful. In fact the specs are... pentium 120 with a unix partition of around 450 Mb It has a 1.1 Gb IDE + CD 8*(mitsumi) IDE. 2 serial ports and a Kingston 16 bit (NDis2) net card. 2 FDloppy drives and a SB16 creative compliant sound card. It also has win 95 loaded on another partition around 550 Mb. I have the BSD bootmanager deployed and it seems to work well. I want the machine to be a proxy server (I'll use squid I guess) for my LAN of around 20 windows machines. (thats irrelevant though) It doesn't need lots of web server space although I'll probably have Roxen or Apache on it. I guess I just need it to be a gateway machine so it can dial in to my existing server (my ISP set up for me but they charge too much & I feel powerless in my own network!...hence my FreeBSD investigations) This is supposed to allow the 20 web & mail & irc etc clients to route out through to my main ISP gateway machine. I have a class C block of IP addresses. By the" system file thing" I have read that in order to make major changes to FreeBSD setup e.g. modems etc... I need the system files etc...Is it to do with a kernel re-build (whatever a kernel is...looks a bit like a windows 95 registry?) So I guess I need to know if I need to setup the full system files in the install program. Thanks for your ears again... I very much appreciate your help. Keith Spencer BSD newbie & IT coordinator @ St Margaret Marys College in Townsville Australia
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